The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Odessa, in Russia. las o new the
lter that cost 1870 00O

II France. has just acquired the casket
g which was placed the heart Of Ammo
" Brittany, Queen of France and Ma
ARE. 1t Is of solid gold.
. -Corea recently broke down h,
y ancient barriers so far rs to send a
> envoy to Japan, but the governmcl
> > was SO poor that it could not suppol
! him, and. soon coming to the end
his resources, he had to ask aid of til
Japanese Government to avoid bcin
put in desperate straits.
: According to Sir Walter Butler.
person may now live for weeks AM
:. months in New Zealand without sec
ing a single specimen of the bird
originally existing in that colony. /
the settled districts they have been re
placed by birds of foreign origin, an,
ornithologlsts are apprchensivo tina tth
indigenous species will wholly disap
pear in the course of q few years.
N. y Ledger.
The English army consists nomi
nally of Pill Ala officers and mon, buI
it is said that only n army corps car
actually be got in tho field. and that
only by frantic makeshifts. OF tho
Il, $40 officers and men stationed in
E~nglandit is alleged that Is, 900 are
boys under nineteen and that 10. O0O
more arc under twenty.
The native merchants Of China
are said to be inveterato swindlers. A
foreign dealer at Tientsin recently
contracted for fifteen hundred bales Of
camcls' wool, guaranteed free Of dirt
and sand. When the first instalment
had passed through tho cleaning ma
chine IS per cent. of its gross weight
was found to be sand and gravel. and
besides that the wool had been
wet to make the dirt stick in, and also
make it heavier.
In China all the roads except tho
imperial highways are tracks over
private land. The owner does all he
can to restrict them. When the soil
washes down into the road-the road
is always deeper than the land-the
owner digs out the road to get back
his soil with interest. This makes the
roads in the rainy season SUGGESTIONS
OF deep puddles. and over all Northern
China traffic is suspended for four or
five months every year on occount of
the impassability of the roads.
During a recent sitting of the
Council General of the Bouches-du-
Rhone a committee appointed to ex-
anime the finances found that eight
hundred francs a year was paid to the
guardians of the tower" Investiga-
ton showed that the tower had been
suppressed since 1867; a total, there
fore, Of sixteen thousand francs having
been paid for guarding nothing for
twenty years. At St. Cloud an en-
ploye of the palace still received a sal
airy for waxing the floor. The palace
was bombarded into ruins in 1870.
The tower which is being erected
by the Russians on the highest point
Of the Mount of Olives is already sew
eral stories high, and but one more is
to be added. 1t is to be so high that
both the Mediterranean and Dead Sea !
may be seen from the top. A number
OF bells will be placed in the tower. In
the foundation seven Christian
graves were found together, with an
inscription in Greek. in which the
VOID "%Stcphanus' could be deci-
phcrcd.
AS brick and stone are now large.
ly used in Japan for building purposes,
the government Of that country de-
sires to take such measures as will be
most likely to prevent their destruc-
ton by earthquakes. and to this end
the Japanese Minister OF Education
has requested recommendations from
various scientific bodies as to the best
OF cdifice to resist the shocks re.
from subterranean disturb
In former times wood only
was used as q material for tho con-
struction OF houses in Japan. IN. Y
Ledger.
An account of some ~interestin o
ancient flint mines discovered near
ur-de-Barrez, France. has been
given by M. Marcelin Boule. The
lints formed a bed underlying some
feet Of chalk, in which narrow
shafts and galleries. still bearing the
marks Of the rude deer-horn picks,
cxcavated. Tho roofs Of the
galleries were supported by pillars
and props as in modern mining. but
The results Of cave-ins arc still to be
seen in tools crushed between fallen
rocks. Near the shafts are tho re-
Of ancient workshops, whore
The flint was worked into various
articles used in the age Of polished
stone. -Arkansaw Naveier.
"A Paris worklng-ma man named
Barthes asked his wife to look down
} well. and as she did so pushed her
N. When she came to tho surface
md screamed for help he let down
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